if i have 2 "for loops" inside each other, and i use "break" in the inner one does it exit from both loops or only the inner one?
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i dont understand how does "break" work exactly, does it break all loops??
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The break statement only breaks the innermost loop. So even in nested loops, it only breaks the loop the statement is inside of.
This example only breaks the while loop:
for i = 1, 10 do
while true do
print("hi\n------")
break -- while loop broken out of
end
print(i)
end
And you can have as many nested loops as you want, only the innermost loop is broken.
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